The other night I went to see the even-more-out-there-than-most anime film
Paprika at the Century, and that put me in a Japanese food frame of mind, so I started checking out the sushi places nearby there to see if any of them looked decent--
--and somehow I found myself sitting at Yen's for Chinese a few minutes later. I don't know, something about the stucco walls and the weird-shaped room and the general lost-in-1967 vibe appealed to me. I just had to hope that the classic Ameri-Chinese didn't totally suck.
And it didn't! It was totally okay! Downright satisfying in a revoke-my-LTH-Chinese-food-snob's-card way. Lemon chicken, big fried chunks, sticky sweet sauce, snow white rice; hot and sour soup with a little commercial beef broth note to it but the right vinegary bite and crunchy bits of water chestnut or something that hadn't been turned to mush. Given that there's nothing really, objectively good in that area that I can think of, I think Yen's may well be the guilty pleasure I've been looking for in that area. I can hardly wait to go back for General Tso's Chicken.